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Article in todays paper
« on: Mar 1st, 2006, 2:07pm » |
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I saw this Q & A w/Dr Donohue article in the St Louis Post Dispatch this morning. Looks like this guy might have a clue.
It's also good just to see someone writing about CH's and raising awareness.
Cluster headaches are indescribably painful
By Dr. Paul Donohue
03/01/2006
Dear Dr. Donohue: I'm 28 and have been driving a truck for four years. I am happily married with two children and am in good health. In the past two months I have had several headaches that are so painful they wake me from sleep, and I have to get out of bed. They last about an hour. I take aspirin for them, but I don't know if it works or if the headache just goes away on its own. What is this?
Your headaches have many of the characteristics of cluster headaches. They are the most painful of all headaches. They usually first appear between the ages of 20 and 40. They're on one side of the head, often centered around the eye. The eye on the side of the headache frequently tears, and the nostril on that side can drip mucus. The headaches can come at night, and they are so bad that they drive a person out of bed. He (male cluster headache sufferers far outnumber females with cluster headaches) paces around the house in a frenzy until the pain leaves. That can take anywhere from minutes to hours.
Cluster headaches come in "clusters." There might be several in a day or night, and they can recur for days or weeks at a time. Then they go away. But they always come back, just when you had begun to forget them.
There are many treatments. Breathing pure oxygen for 15 minutes can end a cluster headache. Migraine medicines in self-administered injections can also abort the headache. Oral medicines are of little use; they take too long to be absorbed.
If a person is in the midst of a cluster when one attack follows another, there are preventive medicines to take. Verapamil, lithium, ergotamine and prednisone are examples.
See your family doctor, who can get you on a treatment and preventive program.
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Re: Article in todays paper
« Reply #1 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 2:33pm » |
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Cool someone does have a clue WOW!!!!
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« Reply #2 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 4:39pm » |
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Great to see the medical profession catching up and that CH got some exposure! 
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« Reply #3 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 5:39pm » |
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Nice find, Jim!!...Thanks.
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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« Reply #4 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 5:58pm » |
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Not bad Not Bad. I have found more and more younger Docs seem to have a clue about these. I make it a point to educate all of the one I work with. When they see me in the cluster shirt I usually get them coming and talking to me. I even found a doc in BFE Alaska last year that knew about them. She was awesome helped me out while I was there.
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 6:18pm » |
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Re: Article in todays paper
« Reply #6 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 6:43pm » |
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Nice find indeed. 
We get him every day here. I Just haven't scanned the paper yet. He's a good guy and has dealt with cluster questions several times since his column appeared.
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on Mar 1st, 2006, 7:08pm, Bob P wrote:
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It is up to YOU to educate yourself and then help your doctor plan your treatment. If you just sit down in front of your doctor and say "make me better" you are setting yourself up for a great deal of pain.
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« Reply #9 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 7:16pm » |
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 1st, 2006, 7:22pm » |
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Great to see an acurate article about Clusters. Looks like this guy should be added to the list of GOOD docs.
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Re: Article in todays paper
« Reply #11 on: Mar 2nd, 2006, 2:33am » |
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Yahoo! 
About time ch gets som coverage.
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